Immigration Law

Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals
The New York Times reports that because Medicaid does not cover long-term care for illegal immigrants or for newly arrived legal immigrants, many American hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because they cannot...

Illegal Immigrants Often Take Abuse in Silence
Dallas, Texas has more than its share of human trafficking in illegal aliens smuggled into this country against their will. Of the approximately 16,000 victims of fraud, force, coercion and abuse per year, about twenty percent wind up in Texas...

Undocumented Immigrants and the Battle for Custody
The New York Times reports today on the legal struggles faced by immigrants caught up in enforcement raids, who then face a loss of custody of their children. As the article characterizes the problem, "crackdowns against illegal immigrants thrust local...

Estimates of new voters in California: "Integration Potential of California's Immigrants and Their Children"
A report was recently issued by the Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees, "Integration Potential of California's Immigrants and Their Children: New Estimates of Potential New Voters at the State, County, and Legislative District Levels...

The State and Local Tax Contributions Made by Undocumented Immigrants
Jacqueline Wolfert (J.D. 2009, Pittsburgh) has published Note, Reality vs. Rhetoric: Lozano v. Hazleton and the State and Local Tax Contributions Made by Undocumented Immigrants, 6 Pitt...

GEO Group Expands prison for immigrants to more than 1,500 in WA
Locked and loaded GEO Group will incarcerate more immigrants. Posted: Jul 10, 2008 by John Herbert NORTHWEST DETENTION CENTER: More immigrants will cross these tracks. Tacoma officials have confirmed that Florida-based private prison corporation the GEO Group has plans to...

Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Division of Immigration Health Services
allegedly drugged deported immigrants with sedatives.

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.

Pittsburgh Health Care Facilities
Facing Wages Class Actions

Pittsburgh Cancer Center
Wanrs of Cell Phone and Cancer Risk